Makar Sankranti is a major festival celebrate in various parts of India. In sri Jagannath temple at Puri this is observed as Uttaraya yatra and uttarrayan vandapana of lord Jagannath. People offer a special kind of newly harvested rice mixed with Jaggery, grated coconut, banana, chenna khoya, dry fruits, milk, grapes called' Makara Chaula' offered it to the gods.